[Ongoing]

WAITING ROOM
Waiting Room, 2006. Under the Clock (QuickTime 1:47)

Under the Clock is a short video that uses the space of Waiting Room as stage set. A railway waiting room becomes the backdrop for a series of experiences that examine the psychological effect of space. This is part of a larger discourse on travel, time and space. Waiting Room explores the anxieties of travel, feelings of displacement and the sense of isolation within public space and views space as narrative container, intertwining physical space and psychological state.

Under the Clock is a QuickTime video (1:47). The original video is 720x480, it is online in reduced size (360x240).

Credits: Annette Weintraub: concept, texts, design and narrative; Michael D. Wilson: Lingo scripting; Deborah Auer: Voiceover.

Waiting Room storyboard

Waiting Room is a project that places multiple theatrical narratives within a hybrid representation of 2D/3D space. A railway waiting room becomes the set for a series of narrative experiences intensified by the psychological effect of the space. It explores themes of spatial/geographic dislocation, temporal disjunction and the anxieties of travel. Waiting Room is was built in Cinema 4D, with interactivity designed in Director 3D using Lingo.

Below: stills from the prototype from preset camera angles.



Waiting Room [interactive shockwave]

In the interactive version of Waiting Room, the viewer can use the four arrow keys to navigate the space.
The 'r' key resets to the original floor position; you can use the tab key and spacebar to cycle through various camera positions. Moving image walls are triggered by proximity.

Open Waiting Room Interactive [pop-up window]

FRAMING LANDSCAPE
Framing Landscape

Framing Landscape is an ongoing project that explores the conventions of landscape. A series of image sequences create a montage that explores time, scale, and sense of place within the natural world and questions the conventions of landscape imagery and photographic representation.

Rock, Water, Earth, Sky, work-in-progress

This multiple channel video presents four iconic landscape image elements [rock, water, earth, sky] in rapid sequence to explore our perception of scale, the passage of time and the particularity of place. A matrix of still and video images is manipulated, reframed and sequenced into four simultaneously running sequences in which the visual conventions of landscape imagery are rapidly contrasted; these contrasts are centered upon the granularity of landscape.